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Tamar Novick explores the use of bodily waste in scientific practice, considering when worthless matter becomes valuable and how this fosters new relationships between distant places, institutions, people, and animals.

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In his research project, historian of science Lino Camprubí analyzes how anti-submarine surveillance reunited geopolitics and ocean science during the Cold War, enabling new global visions of the Mediterranean Sea.

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About the Institute

Founded in 1994, the MPIWG in Berlin is one of the more than eighty research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue an historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged. More

Projects and Sources

Research at the MPIWG is carried out in individual and collaborative projects. To browse through the projects, use the keyword index of the institute. More

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News

Matteo Valleriani appointed as Honorary Professor in History of Science at the Technische Universität in Berlin on September 20, 2017. Go to Profile

Matteo Valleriani co-organises a Masterclass entitled “Galileo’s Methods of Investigation and Discovery” (Institute for Research in the Humanities, Univ. of Bucharest, a few slots are still available). Go to website